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Overview

  • 8 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Italian; learning English, French, Spanish
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • No occupation listed
  • Fine Art
  • From Varese, Italy
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About Me

ABOUT ME

I am optimistic and curious about life. I am hungry of knowledge and I am interested to discover as much as possible. Art and travelling are my passions. I never stop to let me surprise and I try to do my best to follow my dreams.

PHILOSOPHY

”C’è un’odissea sconosciuta che la bellezza è costretta a percorrere nel nostro corpo dopo l’annuncio degli occhi. Dura pochi istanti, forse meno. E’ tortuosa complicata eppure impalpabile. Noi vediamo il bello e la retina subito urla un allarme chiamando in causa l’istinto e ordinando poi alla pupilla di fissarlo senza distrarsi. Il nostro sguardo s’incanta ghermisce le forme immagina improvvisamente comincia a spedire al cuore attraverso la gola quella sostanza aerea di cui sono fatti i sogni. La centrale cardiaca per non compromettere i battiti getta ovunque le sensazioni ricevute: ai muscoli, nelle vene, nelle nostre zone segrete. La bellezza però non sta ferma non riesce. Ripercorre allora una strada inversa portando con sé masse di emozioni cariche d’intensità e stupore. Raggiunge il cervello costringendo l’occhio a non smarrire quanto è riuscito a catturare in un secondo. La bellezza è fisica. Totalmente affidata alla carne, ma ha bisogno di strade segrete che corrono sotto la nostra pelle per farsi riconoscere. I filosofi hanno raccomandato per secoli di cercarla nello spirito. Il mondo contemporaneo vorrebbe scoprirla solo nel corpo. Noi indipendentemente dall’epoca che ci ospita ne abbiamo bisogno come dell’aria e dell’acqua. Forse perché nel nostro intimo siamo convinti dell’eterna verità :”la bellezza salverà il mondo”.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I thought was an amazing idea and I just started to use it

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Great experience that gave me the chance to meet nice people and appreciate their hospitality, advices, friendship

Interests

Art, Culture, Architecture, Design, Graphic Design, Animation, Painting, Sculpture, Literature, Theatre, Music, Movies, Events, cooking, travelling...

  • arts
  • culture
  • literature
  • architecture
  • design
  • graphic design
  • cooking
  • boating
  • movies
  • traveling
  • painting
  • music
  • scuba diving
  • animation

Music, Movies, and Books

Rock, grunge and electronic music
The clash, Smashing pumpkins, Radiohead, Queen of the stone age, Bjork, Massive attack, Crystal Distortion, Ixindamix...

Pulp fiction, The million dollar hotel, Leon, Natural born killers, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a dream...

Le fleur du mal-Charles Baudelaire, Pulp-Charles Bukowski, Siddarta-Hermann Hesse, On the road-Jack Kerouak, Ossi di seppia-Eugenio Montale...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

walk between mayan ruins
climb Machu Picchu
cross colombian border in a cargo boat
see the Ice collapses at Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier
scuba dive at australian great barrier reef
see little turtles reach the open sea at Mon Repos

Teach, Learn, Share

"Young people who ask me "but what do I do?" I reply:

Look! The world is full of things to explore.

It takes courage, determination, imagination, but the possibilities are there.

I made ​​it up myself this life, not a hundred years ago, the day before yesterday. Everyone can do it, it just takes courage, determination, sense of self that is not only career, money, that is the way to be a part of this wonderful thing that is all here around us. So understand? It's doable! Feasible for all, make a life, a real life. A life where you are you, a life where you recognize yourself. "
(Tiziano Terzani)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Norway

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